It's great to see that the major update to the lichen dictionary has reached Recorder 6 at last. A huge amount of work has gone into this, mainly by Chris Raper and Brian Coppins, for which many thanks.

There are a few problems with the detail, which I will post separately.

Also we are very disappointed to see that the list is still not set as a preferred list and the name has not been changed, despite this having been agreed some time ago. Chris Raper confirmed on 13/2/14 that he had changed the name to "BLS Checklist of Lichens and Lichenicolous Fungi", and set it as a recommended list, so we had high hopes. As it is, R6 users don't find the BLS list and then complain loudly to us that the lichen list in Recorder 6 is hopelessly out of date. This is irritating, to say the least, and it gives us a lot of problems with data that is exported to us. Perhaps this could be resolved in a future dictionary update?

Janet